Gathering of the Figments

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Ok, so the comp is not starting just yet... but as for themes, would you guys like to suggest some words/toipics/frazes that you think may inspire poems in others?
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Effervescence

Topics like death, eternity, and the like usually get me on a roll.

I'm a happy person, I swear, but my poetry is fueled by death, disease, and famine. XD

Anyway- not really a theme, but a theme for a theme. Hope it helps.
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butterflii · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:22 am Post subject:

Hrrmmm

I'm a happy (and random) kinda person too, but I agree, I prefer to write about scary, eerie or depressing things, I find it easier too.

I think it's interesting in a competition to say have one for . . . I dunno, "The best poem" and instead of giving a theme you say a line of a poem that everyone has to start off with. So you give us a title or a first line and see what different people come up with.

Get me? Wink

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butterflii · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:29 am Post subject:

OoOoOoOoOoO

Or what about a character? If you gave a breif description of a character people had to write a poem about, or let people make up their own ones.

Get me again? Wink

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Effervescence · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:16 pm Post subject: Hmm.

Hmm. I agree with her first one- give us a starting line. But the character thing... not so much. My poetry isn't generally from the point of view of a "character," and I think limiting us to one would be strangling some... cognitive energy out of us.

Shyeah... Did that make any sense?
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butterflii · Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:24 am Post subject:

It doesn't have to be form the characters point of view. It could just be about a character, their expieriences etc.
It may be harder to do so but that's the point of a competition isn't it, a challenge, to try something new knowing that you might fail.
I'd really like a poetry competition because I think if I'm good at writing at all, then poetry is my strongest point. It seems to flow out alot easier than stories or novels do.

Maybe choosing a colour and getting people to write about that colour. I know it sounds silly but we used to do it in my english class to warm us up and some of the results used to be amazing. Say a random colour like . . . blue. People would come up with all these thing that were blue and all of the emotions that it makes you feel. Ice, cold, sea, sky, bright, sophisticated, frost. But make it into a poem.

It's kind of hard to explain and may sound a bit like a dumb idea, but it really works.
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Spider, Spider, on the wall.
Have you got no sense at all?
Can't you see the walls been plastered.
Now you're stuck you stupid . . . spider.